Leo Strauss on Plato's "Protagoras"
"A Seminar on Plato's Protagoras offers the transcript of Leo Strauss's seminar on Plato's Protagoras edited and introduced by the renowned scholar Robert Bartlett. In this dialogue, Socrates engaged with the sophist Protagoras. In the lectures, Strauss discusses Protagoras and t...
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Chicago ; London
The University of Chicago Press
2022
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| Schriftenreihe: | The Leo Strauss transcript series
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Sophistry and rhetoric : Plato's Gorgias reconsidered
- Callicles's challenge to Socrates in the Gorgias
- Sophistry, rhetoric and the philosophic life
- The turn to the Protagoras (309a-312b)
- Meeting Protagoras (312b-316c)
- Is virtue teachable? (316c-320c)
- The long speech of Protagoras : mythos (320c-322d)
- The long speech of Protagoras : mythos and logos (322d-325b)
- The long speech of Protagoras teacher of virtue
- The cross-examination of Protagoras : virtue and its parts (329d-335c)
- The first breakdown of the conversation and its aftermath (335c-341c)
- Virtue in the element of poetry (341c-347c)
- What is courage? (347c-352e)
- On the hedonism of the many (352e-356c)
- The hedonistic calculus and the problem of courage (356c-359c)
- Courage, hedonism, and the refutation of Protagoras (359c-362a)
- Summary and conclusion : rhetoric and sophistry